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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Have you ever heard of a radlett? It’s defined as the ‘single hemisphere of dried pea which is invariably found in an otherwise spotlessly clean saucepan’. Or how about a lulworth, a ‘measure of conversation’ which ‘defines the amount of the length, loudness and embarrassment of a statement you ...

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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Chaste Clarissa’ (1952) is a story of seduction. Baxter, a promiscuous twice-divorced man, finds himself drawn to a young married redhead named Clarissa while holidaying at Martha’s Vineyard, as is his wont every summer. The story ends with Baxter finally unlocking the key that might – might – ...

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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Greek mythology is full of randy gods who had, shall we say, rather relaxed attitudes towards things like consent, with Zeus obviously being the grand daddy of them all (not to mention the literal daddy of Apollo, Artemis, Dionysus, Heracles, Hermes, Minos, Persephone, Perseus, and Helen of Troy, to ...

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By Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The Queen Is Dead is one of those classic albums on which even the minor tracks take on a kind of epic grandeur. Undoubtedly the Smiths’ masterpiece (although all four band members expressed a preference for their swansong, Strangeways Here We Come, for the title of ‘best’), this 1986 album ...

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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The focus of this week’s column is an Elizabethan poet who wrote, among other things, a sequence of love sonnets in the early 1590s and a work often referred to, in short, as Richard III. This writer was born in the Tudor era but actually died, in the 1610s, ...

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